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Featured Article, December 21, 2021

Harald Alvestrand is a Norwegian computer scientist, who is very active in the IETF, acting as its chair from 2001 until 2005, the chair of the Areas for Applications from 1995 until 1997 and Operations and Management in 1998, and most recently the IETF liaison to the ICANN Board of Directors since 2018. He has long been active in ICANN as well, serving on the ICANN Board from 2007 to 2010.

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• The Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP Global) endorsed S.3399, the "Domain Reform for Unlawful druG Sellers Act" (DRUGS Act). This bipartisan legislation was co-sponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) last week. The DRUGS Act would hold registries and registrars accountable and give the FDA the authority to “suspend websites run by criminal networks that traffic” illegal drugs.
• The Digital Cooperation and Development Forum is taking place December 13-23, featuring Arab IGF sessions, ICANN presentations, and other topics.
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  In a UDRP decision, a WIPO panel found that caribou.com wasn’t registered and used in bad faith.

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